The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-17
Lncal and State Notes.

The Pennsylvania lines announce that they
will sell mileage tickets at the rate OF s25 per
1000 miles.
The shipments OF coal from the Island City
mines in April were 1920 tons. against {, ITO
tons in the corresponding month of 1885,
The L., n. A. & G. have been working on
their freight tariff northward from Indianapolis,
and as result the rates are reduced 20 TO 40
per cent many classes of freight.
The Bee-line people are distributing 800. 900
cross-ties on the c., c., G. g l. road proper.
Chief Engineer Irwin says they propose to have
every one of them under their track by July 1.
The c., Fl. & D. people negotiating with
the Indianapolis works for 500 more coal cars
of 80 900 pounds capacity. of the same pattern
of those the works recently built for this road.
The management of the Lou isville, Evans
VILE & St. Louis-Air line show disposition to
branch out in several directions. their latest
proposition is to build from Jasper to Orleans
on the L., N, A. g. c. via French Lick
Springs
plauing- mill department we'll started again. and
are hiring back but few of the strikers There
were some seventy-fve went out, and but twenty
of them have been re-empioyeu. IneSe twenty
went out reluctantly.
Aa on the c., l., St. L. & G. road. employees on
the Pennsy lvania road are liberal purchasers OF
the companys stock. 1t is stated that nearly
every clerk of the Pennsylvania road located In
Philadelphia has from one to twenty shares OF
the new stock in his own name or that or rela-
tive.
Alfred Suily, president, gives notlce tha1
Henry Fink has been elected vlce-presicent or
the Richmond s. Danville Railroad Company,
and has been placed in charge of the property OF
the company and its leased lines, with full power
and authority in all matters pertaining 10 oper-
atinc the traffic department
There is the best of authority for sta ting that
there is 10 grounds for the current ru NOR that
there is a hitch in the consolidation scheme of
the L. B. Sg W. and G., S. 81 c. roads. Every
thing is moving smoothly. and within the next
forty days the consolidation will be perfected
and the two interests placed on a better financial
basis than ever before.
The foundations for the additional c., St. L.
& F. shops at this point are completed. and the
nearing com nletion. All will be ready for oc-
cupancy within forty days Peter Routier, the
contractor for this work, IS also erecting build
ings to cost $40 900 for the Pennsylvania Com
pany at Louisville. n.y.
+. w MeKenna, formerly superiu tendent OF
the j., NJ. s. l., assistant to h. IL. Souie,
general manager of the Erie lines. has been ten
dered the superinIendency of one of the largest
divisions of one of the best of the Northwestern
systems. He hesitateS to accent, as he is now IN
the line of promotion on the Erie and probably
better things await him there.
VIM. Turreff general master mechanic of the
Beeine has given orders that every locomotive
on the system, rapidly as il can be taken into
the shops. shall be equipped with the Booth
slide valve. The Denver 81 Rio Grande road has
ordered several engines equipped with the same
valve. There is a screw. bolt, rivet, or stud
used IN any part of the construction OF this
valve.
There will be meeting OF the freight agents
of several OF the northern and southern lines at
Atlanta. tomorrow, to see what can be done